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A brown clutch bag made from fish skin with a beige flower in the center, patterned with wood grain.
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Zougan Fish Leather Clutch

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A series of six images depicting the Kakishibu dyeing process. The top two images show slices of persimmons, the middle two show the brown shades of juice distilled from the fruit, and the bottom two show a swatch of fish skin being dyed brown with the juice.
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Kakishibu Dyed Fish Leather

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a scan of a louse
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Walrus Lice

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A graph showing rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere over time.
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Ocean Acidification Graph

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An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.
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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax

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A emperor penguin chick sits under its mother's legs.
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Emperor Penguin Chick with Mother

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Sargassum fish from South Korea
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Sargassum fish from the Waters of South Korea

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This is the cover of the book Dampier wrote about his first trip around the world.
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Book Cover for Dampier's Account of his First Trip Around the World

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A dredge from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can be seen removing a sandbar off of Virginia Beach, VA.
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Dredging Sand

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This photo provides a small glimpse of the amazing variety of whale skulls and skeletons available for study at the Smithsonian.
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Whale Collections

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With the sun in its beak, the canoe’s raven figurehead points the way.
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Canoe Figurehead

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